Super Feminist – A Queer Video by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan

Super Feminist – a queer video by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan have collaborated for a decade. They are based in Winnipeg, Canada. They are two of Canada’s best known queer performance artists. They make some very funny feminist videos as well as live performances, and public art projects.

Surrender No Surrender, By Anthea Black, Canada

Queer artist Anthea Black has just opend a new exhibtion at SNAP’s Studio Gallery in Edmonton, Alberta. The show includes poster editions from Anthea Black’s collaborative ‘looking for love in all the wrong places’ project and new works from her residency at SNAP this winter. Exhibition Duration: July 23rd – September 5th,…

Homo A Go-Go Festival 2009, San Francisco, USA

Homo A Go Go (HAGG) is an internationally attended festival of queer music, film, art, performance, and activism. This year the festival includes workshops and group shows by visual artists from all over the world. This year’s group art show, which is entitled ‘Homegrown’, can be visited at SOMArts Gallery,…

Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places

You may think that I am referring to my personal life, but I am not. “Looking for love in all the wrong places” is a postering project/networking project for queer artists to collaborate, takeover and discuss safe spaces for queers in Alberta, Canada and beyond. If you are in Alberta watch…

‘OUTside The Box: A Queer People Of Color Visual Artist Exhibit’

New England’s second annual QWOC WEEK, August 2nd-9th, a multicultural pride festival produced by Queer Women of Color and Friends (QWOC+ Boston), will feature local LGBT Visual Artists of color as part of week-long art exhibition, entitled “OUTside the Box: a Queer People of Color Visual Artist Exhibit.” Opening reception…

'Egoless' Visual Art Exhibition

‘Egoless’ Visual Art Exhibition August 8-29, 2009 Opening Reception Aug. 8, 7:30pm Artist Discussion Panel for Members & Press Aug. 8, 6pm Femina Potens Art Gallery 2199 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94114 Femina Potens writes about the ‘Egoless’ group art show: ‘In May 2009 we divided our fifteen participating artists…

‘Meeting of Two Queens’ By Cecilia Barriga

   Film still from Cecilia Barriga’s video work ‘Meeting of Two Queens’, 1991. In the experimental video ‘Meeting of Two Queens: Encuentro entre dos Reinas’, Spain, 1991, Cecilia Barriga, a Chilean video artist, recasts the beautiful old Hollywood filmstars Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich in silent film style to tell…

Portraits Of Gay Icons At The National Portrait Gallery In London

The National Portrait Gallery quotes Sandi Toksvig in their introduction of the exhibition ‘Gay Icons’: ‘How I wish this selection had been available to me when I was young and trying to make sense of my reactions to the world. How inspirational to have had portraits of the great and…

Galleri Signe Vad, Copenhagen: I SKABET (In The Closet)

July 24 – August 13 2009 you can see Danish photographer Charlotte Haslund-Christensen‘s exhibition ‘I SKABET’ (In the closet) at Galleri Signe Vad, Nansensgade 47, Copenhagen, Denmark. Charlotte has made mugshots of homosexual Danes. You may know some of her models, because they are all out and proud gay people,…

‘The Lesbian Art Show’ in Oregon, USA

Lesbian art was on display in Fontanelle Art Gallery downtown Portland, Oregon, USA, during the Portland pride in June 2009. The exhibition ‘Lesbian Art show’, which can be seen on the Fontanelle Gallery’s website now, is made by the artists Mary McAlister, Azsa West and Aubree Bernier-Clarke. Mary explained recently…

Trailers for Queer Films by Barbara Hammer

Dyketactics & Other Films from the 1970’s by Barbara Hammer from Barbara Hammer’s video stream on Vimeo. Nitrate Kisses (1992) by Barbara Hammer. Nitrate Kisses is an essay documentary, which explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culture. First feature by a pioneer of lesbian cinema,…

Show Me Your Fantasy – A Viaual Arts Exhibition in San Francisco

Femina Potens Art Gallery invites you to the opening reception of ‘Show me your fantasy’, July 11, 2009, 7-10pm at Femina Potens Art Gallery 2199 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA. Femina Potens is a grassroots non-profit art gallery & performance space, which hosts queer art shows. For their july…